I'm really asking: What is the math on all of this? If Metro Surge started Dec 1, and they claim to have deported 4,000 people, at a cost of $18 million a week, and it's been ten weeks, they show no sign of leaving, and we leave out the murders—$2billion to destroy us? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

There is no way to fix the core problem, which is that the statistical production of symbols by definition is not based on their meaning

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

We’ve seen lots of reports of legal observers being arrested in North Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, and Eden Prairie. Exercising your first amendment right to observe is not a crime. This is exactly why congress can’t give another penny to DHS.

Well, whadda you know, once again capital has to rely on labor for anything to function.

It's Leo's Towing--and they're doing a charity event with Lito's Burritos on Sunday 💜 www.facebook.com/share/186pVG...

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

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Take a moment to remember the good things in life; I know it’s hard to do this, when it feels like the world is tipping this way & that, but if my little mouse can help you connect with “la vie en rose” again just for a moment, then my job as an artist is done for today 🩷

European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸‍♀️ They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

Another day, another white guy lauded by America's most esteemed institutions with a shocking amount of social power including being friends with Huey P Newton before being excommunicated from the BPP "for his own good" who I never heard of in my life before today planning our ruination with JEE

Hear me out There's 2M subreddits and 3M documents so all we need to do is give all 30 subreddits that aren't basically dedicated to screen clips of the Dance Moms kids bending over each 100k files and let them sort this out Interested in learning what r/crochet discoveres

ACADEMICS: If some other academic's ability to think through ethics, morals, or consequences was so poor as to admit association with any old wealthy person, especially when they've already been convicted of heinous crimes You gotta admit their work may ALSO reflect this lack of intellectual rigor

This is a truly timeless piece... harpers.org/archive/1941...

And people are getting angry about Anne Frank comparisons www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

Okay but have you considered that part of what makes us angrier and polarized is that we are made more aware of the uncool things being done in places that we cannot see? That we are able to see what the BBC and New York Times would rather wave away? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Because I'm talking about measles. It is also A VERY VERY VERY CONTAGIOUS VIRUS. If someone is in a room and has measles and then leaves that room and you enter that room within TWO HOURS (depending on humidity) you can get measles. And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.

the civil rights movement did not win by awakening the secret virtue of Southern whites by appealing to their better nature. it won by producing a demonstration of their brutality Northerners could not ignore

if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

SHIVERS - MAKE IT RIGHT. MORE THAN YOU KNOW DEPENDS ON IT.

Nation. To harass the community, ICE detains anybody, brings them to their facility at Whipple, processes them, and if they've decided not to deport them they'll release them. Into the woods in the area. At night. Without jackets. In below 0 weather.

It’s so hard to describe what this is like to people who aren’t here. The ICE/BCP occupation seeps into everything. It’s not just the horror of the big stuff. It’s the little stuff, too: helicopters all night, vigilance during every trip out of the house, guilt at having any downtime at all.

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world

Thinking about the absolute shitheads and fascists in these emails that were the loudest shouters about "getting back to normal" in 2020. This was the normal they wanted all of us to get back to

Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

(eats 32 lefse) Why am I not evolving

Everyone on tiktok has the chance to do the funniest thing ever right now (get off tiktok)

Here is the map interface. In testimony we obtained of an ICE official, they said “It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps.” ICE uses to find neighborhoods that may be dense with people it wishes to target www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

People outside of Minnesota, in case you are wondering how to help the current situation, this website has many current opportunities to donate and support people who need help in Minnesota. Help pay rent, get groceries, and provide other support for people in hiding. www.standwithminnesota.com

it's increasingly clear that the reason ICE wears masks and is afraid of getting "doxxed" is actually because they are deeply familiar with how robust digital surveillance tools are and do not want them to be eventually used against themselves

There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon. If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can. Thank you 🫶🏻

Did I mention that large portions of MN’s population are in hiding right now? Kids are missing school. Adults can’t go out to work. People aren’t able to buy food or pay rent, and mutual aid is all keeping everyone going. We keep us safe, on our own, and people are being shot in the street for it

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

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look, we have a choice: artificial intelligence that consumes vast amounts of electricity or human intelligence that runs on widely available grilled cheese. there are already windmills producing so much grilled cheese that people are selling the excess back to utility companies.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Everything going on rn and the men of Europe who do science have decided to address the real problem: yelling that everyone else is writing "too many" "unimportant" scientific papers Point to some of these unimportant superfluous papers boys and lmk when you see the pattern of authors and/or topics

Restaurants in the Twin Cities have largely switched to pickup only to protect delivery workers, many undocumented because that is work people going through the asylum process can do, from being disappeared or having ICE use delivery orders as a trap.

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

People outside of Minnesota, in case you are wondering how to help the current situation, this website has many current opportunities to donate and support people who need help in Minnesota. Help pay rent, get groceries, and provide other support for people in hiding. www.standwithminnesota.com